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Article: KARIMUN CUSTOMS PATROL BOAT ARRESTS TANKER SELLING DIESEL OIL AT SEA.
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- ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)
- Article date:
- January 10, 2006
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Batam, Jan 10 (ANTARA) - The customs personnel of the Tanjung Balai, Karimun, in Riau islands, had intercepted and arrested an oil tanker, MT Batamas Sentosa V, loaded with 5,292 kiloliters of diesel oil sold to a Singapore ferry boat in the Singapore Strait. The interception of the Indonesian tanker took place at 11.15 pm local time, as it was transferring its cargo to the Singapore ferry boat, ANTARA reported here on Tuesday. Actually the customs authorities have long been suspecting MT Batamas Sentosa V to have been engaged in this illegal activity, but it always managed to got away with the offence, because the transfer was very quick and carried out in ...